General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. Walk before breakfast – Rain with intervals of sunshine – Orms Head legends – Evening stroll. At about half past six the sun shone very bright, And the breeze was so fresh that I thought with delight Of a walk before breakfast, so at seven I was out Wondering where I should go to as I wandered about The high street, looking at this shop and that, Till I got nearly opposite the place we lodged at: It was a quarter past seven when I was close to the house, – There was no one to be seen – all was still as a mouse; The door, too, was shut, so on, past the parade, Towards the Little Orms Head I very leisurely strayed: The way was straight up the road; on one side might be seen Now and then a house, but the rest was all green, Which were fields shut in by hedges; on the other the walk – A pathway rather broad – then grass, sand, and chalk In very small pieces, and this gradually shelved down, And gave way to confused heaps of rocks, white and brown. I occasionally stopped – to notice, here and there, Any plant that looked strange, or appeared to be rare, For there are said to be some growing close to the shore That have not been seen at any other place before, So they are put down as unknown; but those I espied Were like thistles, and grew in sand and grass by the side Of the beach, and though very uncommon to view They were well armed with prickles, and sharpish ones too; But strange it would be should it afterwards appear That they were only wild thistles all the time growing here: The beach was rocky and stony, and occasionally you may see Cru…
